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What stars are made of the life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Donovan Moore ; foreword by Jocelyn Bell Burnell

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England Harvard University Press 2020Description: xix, 298 Seiten Illustrationen 22 cmContent type:
  • Text
Media type:
  • ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen
Carrier type:
  • Band
ISBN:
  • 9780674237377
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 520.62 B
LOC classification:
  • QB36.G372
Other classification:
  • AAC
  • UB 3260
  • 39.01
  • 39.22
Online resources: Summary: Part I. Beginning: Wendover and London (1900-1919) -- Part II. Preparing: Cambridge (1919-1923) -- Part III. Discovery: Harvard (1923-1979)Summary: "Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was the revolutionary scientific thinker who discovered what stars are made of. But her name is hard to find alongside those of Hubble, Herschel, and other great astronomers. Donovan Moore tells the story of Payne's life of determination against all the obstacles a patriarchal society erected against her"--
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Part I. Beginning: Wendover and London (1900-1919) -- Part II. Preparing: Cambridge (1919-1923) -- Part III. Discovery: Harvard (1923-1979)

"Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was the revolutionary scientific thinker who discovered what stars are made of. But her name is hard to find alongside those of Hubble, Herschel, and other great astronomers. Donovan Moore tells the story of Payne's life of determination against all the obstacles a patriarchal society erected against her"--

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